Qila Rai Pithora, built by Tomar Rajputs is located in which among the following cities?
Answer: B
It is in New Delhi.
Qila Rai Pithora is the first of the seven cities of Delhi, built by the Tomars in the eleventh century and extended by Prithviraj Chauhan, after whom it is named. Its ruined walls stand near the Qutb complex.
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The Rath Yatra at Puri is celebrated in honour of which Hindu deity
Answer: B
It honours Jagannath.
The Rath Yatra at Puri each Ashadha carries Jagannath, with Balabhadra and Subhadra, in three great chariots from the temple to the Gundicha temple. Jagannath's chariot, the Nandighosa, has sixteen wheels and gave English the word juggernaut.
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The famous “Ganga Sagar Mela”, an annual fair is held in which state of India?
Answer: D
It is held in West Bengal.
The Gangasagar Mela takes place at Sagar Island, where the Ganga meets the Bay of Bengal, at Makar Sankranti in January. It is the second largest gathering of pilgrims in India after the Kumbh.
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Aripana, an art form of Rangoli is practised in which state?
Answer: C
It is practised in Bihar.
Aripana is the Maithil floor art of Bihar, drawn with rice paste at festivals and ceremonies. The name derives from the Sanskrit alepana, meaning to smear.
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Raut Nacha is folk dance performed mainly by the tribal communities of which state?
Answer: D
It belongs to Chhattisgarh.
Raut Nacha is danced by the Yadav cattle-herding community around Dev Uthni Ekadashi, in memory of Krishna the cowherd, with the dancers carrying sticks and wearing peacock plumes.
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Chinnayya, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivelu were teachers and composers related to which of the following dance in India?
Answer: B
They belong to Bharatanatyam.
The four brothers of Thanjavur, court musicians in the early nineteenth century, arranged the recital into the sequence still followed - alarippu, jatiswaram, shabdam, varnam, padam, tillana - and composed much of its repertoire.
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Adya Dhara niradhara, niralamba Saraswati, thus lamented a poet at the demise of which among the following Kings?
Answer: D
It was Bhoja Paramara.
The verse - today the earth is without support, and learning without a patron - was said to have been uttered at the death of the eleventh-century king of Dhara, himself a scholar and the author of works on poetics, architecture and astronomy.
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Veda which is partly in prose and partly in verses is ___ ?
Answer: C
It is the Yajurveda.
It is the Veda of sacrificial formulae, and its prose passages give the directions for the ritual while the verses are drawn largely from the Rigveda. The Shukla recension separates the two; the Krishna mixes them.
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Which among the following temples of India is known as Black Pagoda?
Answer: A
It is the Sun Temple at Konark.
European sailors called it the Black Pagoda, for the dark colour of its stone and to distinguish it from the White Pagoda, the Jagannath temple at Puri, which they used as a landmark.
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Dhundiraj Govind was the first name of which of the following legends of Indian Cinema?
Answer: A
It was Dadasaheb Phalke.
Dhundiraj Govind Phalke made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, India's first full-length feature, and is called the father of Indian cinema. The national award for lifetime achievement in film is named after him.
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